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(P50) Blue Nights by Joan Didion

(P61) Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro -“dark”
(P86)-“bit of an echo of your earlier novel.”
(P86) The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro-“universal theme to human experience,- isolation, loneliness.
(P95) 84 Charing Cross Road by Helen Hanff
(P101) Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck- “which is charming- an intellectual cross country road trip.”

“This is pure egotistical insanity and I will not lie down for it. It’s a garden club for the love of the universe, a gathering of individuals for the purpose of discussing GARDENING, and Debbie Banks is not going to dictate the presentation material as a means to boost her own already-too-puffed-up-ego. …. She’s no idiot, you know, she had a prenup before anyone knew what prenups were.”(P49)
Loved this!!!

…”Enclosed is a 25% off voucher for Applebee’s. Thought you might not be in the mood to cook. On Tuesdays their cocktails are half price.” (P44)

…You also asked after the meaning of my practice of letter writing, you called it quaint and impractical (which was more telling you, Mr. Watts, than it was offensive to me, though it was, still offensive to me).” (P45)

…letter to Ann Patchett- State of Wonder, Bel Canto (P6-7)

…letter to Rosalie- …leafed through what I own, and the only black anything I have anymore is a dress I was probably wearing in the 1990s, which dips down to the uppermost part of what used to be my cleavage, but which now resembles the skin of a raw plucked chicken. (P39)